2025
The Guardian November 2025: ‘They treat men like vending machines’: inside the hidden world of social media sperm selling
Daily Mail September 2025: I had a baby using free sperm from Facebook… there’s a harrowing reason why I don’t recommend it
Channel 4 News September 2025: Wrong genetic info given to people born by sperm donation
The Telegraph June 2025: At 41, I found out I was the child of a sperm donor, not my dad
Sky News June 2025: 23andMe fined millions by UK watchdog over ‘profoundly damaging’ cyber attack
Progress Educational Trust (PET) May 2025: UK Government postpones surrogacy law reform
2024
Progress Educational Trust Oct 2024: Donor conception is for life – Who cares? Who pays? Whose rights matter?
The Guardian Aug 2024: UK sperm donations being exported despite 10-family limit
The Guardian Aug 2024: ‘You feel a bit mass-produced’: donor-conceived people on the export of UK sperm
The Guardian Aug 2024: Rise in DNA tests being used to claim citizenship of other countries
Independent June 2024: ‘I wish I was 3 years younger so I could legally find out my egg donor mother’s details’
2023
Front Line Genomics Nov 2023: Donor-conception: A complex journey
Telegraph Nov 2023: Children conceived by donor should know who their biological parents are
The Guardian Nov 2023: Egg and sperm donors in UK to lose right to anonymity at birth under new plans
The Sunday Times Oct 2023: Meet the 18-year-olds about to discover their biological fathers
The Independent Oct 2023: I found out I was conceived using donor sperm… my life collapsed like a Jenga tower
The Independent Sept 2023: People born by donor eggs or sperm will be able to find out biological origins
Express.co.uk July 2023: ‘I grew up thinking my dad died when I was a child but my mum had kept a secret for years’
iNews March 2023: ‘After 60 years, I discovered I was a sperm donor baby. Then I uncovered my 600 half siblings’
Telegraph March 2023: I was fathered by a super sperm donor – and I might have hundreds of siblings
2021
The Guardian Sept 2021: The great sperm heist: ‘They were playing with people’s lives’
2019
BBC Oct 2019: Sperm donors should waive anonymity, fertility regulator says
2016
Progress Educational Trust (PET) March 2016: Retrospective removal of donor anonymity: respectful, fair, grateful and moral? An evidence-based argument
2015
BBC September 2015: UK national sperm bank has just nine donors
2011
The Guardian Nov 2011: Donor-conception: ‘I’d got to the bottom of a secret’ (Christine Whipp)
2009
Daily Mail March 2009: Sarah and Tom spent £25,000 to have an IVF baby because he was infertile. Then he walked out because he couldn’t love a child that wasn’t his
2008
The Guardian Nov 2008: ‘I could have 300 siblings’ (Jo Rose)
Daily Mail October 2008: The hidden health risks for children of sperm donors
Daily Mail May 2008: The incredible hunch that told me I’d met my sperm donor father
2007
Daily Mail Dec 2007: Children born of sperm or egg donors ‘should have birth certificates stamped’
The Guardian Jan 2007: My father, Mr X
2006
The Guardian April 2006: Cruel cost of the human egg trade
2002
The Guardian May 2002: Give me my own history (David Gollancz)
The Guardian Jan 2002: Your daddy was a donor (Christine Whipp)
1999
The Independent July 1999: I’m a product of science fiction. I should not have been born (Christine Whipp)